Sgwd Gwladys Waterfall

After the heavy rains over the past few days, we went for a walk around the waterfalls of Pontnedfechan. This is Sgwd Gwladys waterfall taken from a low viewpoint whilst standing in the river.

Ogof Ffynnon Ddu 1

Another caving trip today into Ogof Ffynnon Ddu 1 which is the lower end of this large cave system in South Wales, it was also a try out for my new caving camera, a Olympus TG2 all lighting was supplied via a remote flashgun.

Box Stone Mine

We visited Box Stone Mine today, this is a vast complex of tunnels where you can easily get lost, good job we had a good guide with us today. As you can see from the photos, there are a lot of old mining artefacts still left in place.

The Old Workshop

I visited Big Pit mining museum today in order to view the 2013 PAGB photo salon, which is well worth viewing with a very wide range of high quality photography.  Anyway whilst I was there, I managed to take a few shots, here is one from the old workshop which I was quite pleased with, plus one showing the pit head gear.

Barons Cross Lawnmower Race

This was the final round of the WMLMRA and was held a The Barons Cross pub in Leominster.

Africa

This autumn we travel overland from South Africa, to Namibia , then Botswana and finally ending up in Zimbabwe. As you could imagine we seen a lot of wildlife throughout our trip, here is just a small example.

Brecon Fringe

Again this was yet another very well attended event with good weather and lots of free music being played at many venues around the Brecon area. I managed to capture quite a few images over this weekend, here are just a few.

The Bridge Lawnmower Race

As you can see from the photos this was a very damp race, but made for a interesting day of racing. The event was held over 4 hours and the winning team would be the one that completed the most laps.

The Severn Bridge

This evening we took a drive down to the Severn Bridge to try and capture the bridge with the sun setting in the background, but the clouds started to build up quickly and the sun was no more, anyway this still give me a few more images before the rain started.

Llangorse Lake

This is a view from the other side of the lake as the sun was starting to drop.

Allensmore Harness Racing

I went to the Harness Racing at Allensmore near Hereford today, weather was nice and hot which also gave us a good day of racing.

Abergavenny Cycle Races

The is a week long event, with cycle races/rides happening in and around the Aberavenny area. But on the Friday evening they close some of the streets to make a circuit around the town centre, the evening is started with races from some of the local clubs with a professional race towards the end. Here are a few shots from that evening.

The Elan Valley Forum Meet

Today was spent around the Elan Valley in Mid Wales, the meet was arranged on a Photographic Forum which I'm a member of, we had a good turn out and it was surprising who many different version of a similar shot was produced throughout the day with different people using different cameras and lens.

Little Neath River Cave

We made good use of the weather today, by visiting a cave that can only be entered under driest conditions, as we need to enter the cave through a river bed with some of the river following us in. The cave is mainly very wet but usually warm.

The Masons Lawnmower race

We had excellent weather today for the second round of the WMLMRA series. This round was held at The Masons public house and it drawn a good crowd of spectators who enjoyed the day of racing.

Cwmorthin

We spent this weekend around the Cwmorthin area of North Wales, the Saturday was spent exploring the old mines workings which are vast and on many levels, then on the Sunday we spent the day exploring the surface features and derelict buildings.

Cricket at Harpendon

This weekend we spent visiting relations at Harpendon, and on the Sunday the local cricket team had a match on, so I managed to capture some of the action.

Ogof Ffynnon Ddu

We went caving today, into a cave known as Ogof Fyynnon Ddu which is located in the Swansea Valley, this is a shot of one of the many formations in this cave, with this one being known as the Judge.

Brampton Bryan Point to Point

Today was a lovely day weather wise, with the sun out and blue sky's, such a novelty compared to what we have had to put up with for the past few months. Anyway I took advantage of the weather and went out to another point to point race in Herefordshire, a great day of racing.

Red Kites around my home

Out working in the garden today, and these red kites came and spent a while eyeing up the local area giving me enough time to get the camera and capture a few shots.

Another walk in the Beacons

With Easter upon us, it is now the time to stay away from the Pen y Fan area of the Brecon Beacons as it will be just like walking with hundreds of other people who wish to visit the National Park, and 99% of these people only ever want to walk up to Corn Du and Pen y Fan, yet there are so many other great walks which are very rarely visited, in fact today we were out walking for most of the day and only bumped into one couple early on in the day, and a family later on, and had fantastic views all to ourselves.